Sanjay KumarDr. Sanjay Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (India) {An Institute of National Importance, Government of India} since January, 2018. He has worked on both thermal comfort assessment and building energy efficiency measures through adoption of passive design in Indian context during his PhD tenure. Dr Sanjay had an experience of working under an international project. The author worked as a Senior Research Fellow under the Indo-US joint collaborative project of ‘Center for Building Energy Research and Development’ (CBERD) under the umbrella of Indo-US Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE). Dr Sanjay have gained significant knowledge of thermal comfort, passive design and energy modeling of different built environment by publishing a number of research papers in international journals of repute with high impact factors like Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, Journal of Building Engineering, Renewable Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering etc. The aim of the investigator is to develop a route or methodology for assessing the sustainable and energy efficient buildings in India to support the Government of India’s energy conservation initiatives.Brahim ElBhiri Brahim El Bhiri (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Professor in telecommunication and embedded systems with Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (EMSI). He is also the Director of R&D&I with EMSI and the Head of SMARTiLab Laboratory of Research, Development and Innovation. He has over 11 years of experience in the field of electronics, wireless sensor networks, data processing, and embedded systems. He has published more than 30 papers in international scientific journals and international conferences. He is the author of two books and ten book chapters. He has received a number of awards, one of them a best paper award from Italy at the Seventh SENSORCOMM’2013 International Conference

• Chapter 1. Fast And Reliable Power System Marginal States Assessment for Emergency Control Systems.- Chapter 2. Microgrid Optimization Using a Developed Model of Genetic Algorithm under MATLAB.- Chapter 3. State of Charge Estimation of the Li-ion Batteries Using Developed MATLAB Model of Kalman Filtering.- Chapter 4. Electric Vehicle and Photovoltaic System Integration in a Grid Connected AC Microgrid.- Chapter 5. Performance prediction of PV modules operating outdoor under varying conditions based on explicit model.- Chapter 6. Regeneration, resilience and metamorphosis of the building envelope: analysis of the high-rise and skyscraper types.- Chapter 7. Improving the Energy Performance for Tower Design by Using Innovative Façade Systems and Intelligent Skins: the Case of Amman City.- Chapter 8. Effect of PCM tubes on the thermal and dynamic behavior of a solar dyer.- Chapter 9. Optimization of Hydrothermal Synthesis Temperature for High Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue by g-C3N4 Microtubes.- Chapter 10. Design and characterization of biodegradable self-healing nanocomposites.- Chapter 11. ectro-curing: saving energy for the manufacturing of structural resins is possible.- Chapter 12. Localized heat generation for de-icing applications by 3D printing of smart nanocomposites.- Chapter 13. Analysis of traditional construction materials and techniques: A Case study of Guthu Mane in Coastal region of Karnataka.- Chapter 14. Evaluation of energy consumption prediction models for smart buildings.- Chapter 15. Modeling the drying trays of an indirect solar dryer: porous medium vs solid zone.